The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, February 9, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 91 USPS 650-640
Snow Hall inadequate for research, profs say
By ANNIKA NILSSON Staff Reporter
Some biology faculty members may inadequate to leave the University in Snow Hall may force them to leave the University.
The problems include lack of space, leaky
plastic floors that are not designed for wet
laboratory use.
One of the faculty members, James Hamrick, professor of botany, last week that the lack of space and the inadequate facilities in Snow Valley caused a quality research he said he thought was capable.
He said it also prevented him from training students to do high-quality research.
"If you are concerned about your career and concern about trained students, then I have to consider going somewhere else," Humrick said. "I'll just say that if something attractive comes up, I'll go for it."
HAMRICK SAID the situation had changed in the last month. In January Gov. John Carlin announced a budget that did not include money for lab equipment, and would house biology laboratories and office space.
When Carlin announced the budget, he said he still supported the Haworth addition but that the estimated price, $12.3 million, and lack of funding would delay the project.
The addition has been one of KU's highest priorities this year, but it was not included in the Board of Regents recommendation to the Legislature.
Bernard Franklin, chairman of the Regents,
said that he would give the addition
consideration next month.
"It was important to show the Legislature that our number one concern was faculty education."
However, Brower Burchell, professor of physiology and cell biology, said, "The biology faculty, if we were given a choice, would take a lower raise in salary to get the new facilities."
Hamrick said the major problem with Snow was the poor quality of its laboratory space. He said that the equipment was old and often broken and that mice were a problem in the building.
"Sometimes I have to start an experiment three to four times because of the facilities," he
Once, he said, mice ate one of his seed experiments.
ANOTHER FACULTY MEMBER, Michael Gaines, associate professor of systematics and ecology, also said he had considered leaving the university because of the inadequate laboratory facilities.
"All of us were really excited about moving to Haworth," he said. "When we found out it was cut from the budget, it was really depressing."
Gaines said that he did not have any space to do his behavioral studies on prairie voles, which are small rodents. He said the space he needed had been part of the planned Haworth addition.
He also said that the lack of water pressure during the summer affected his research.
"During the summer our research slows down and we have to wait till the sprinkler system stops," he said. "I feel a little hit resentful that my productivity as a scientist is suffering from inadequate facilities. One way to make people listens is to have people start leaving." Gaines said.
Gaines also complained about mice and cockroaches in the building.
"I've been able to catch at least one mouse a night with two traps," he said.
One faculty member said he thought many people did not pursue other job opportunities because the University provided a certain amount of academic freedom.
He said roaches were everywhere and he could
not keep stamps in his drawers because the roaches licked off the glue.
"Now the salary and facilities are becoming so imbalanced the University is going to lose," Frank DeNoylems, associate professor of systematics and ecology said. "Most people's lives are done anywhere and there is going to be a strong inclination to go where it can be best done."
He said the problems for him had not been bad enough to tip the balance to leaving.
Toaches linked on the glue.
"Little things like that add up" he said.
"The average person in the sciences has brought more money into the University than he has into his job."
HE SAID ONE-THIRD of every grant was overhead and went directly to the University. The biology division brought in more than $1.2 million in non-state grants during fiscal year 1980.
DeNoyelles also said that faculty members not only take from the University but return to them.
Burchill said the inadequate space and facilities in Snow limited the number of grants the division could receive.
"You don't get research grants if you don't have the facilities," he said. "Some day we will lose our federal grants. If we lose those grants, we need to undergraduate teaching will be severely hit."
murciail said Snow was not good for laboratory research because the electrical circuits were inadequate for scientific equipment and the floor was not designed for wet laboratory use.
John O'Brien, associate professor of systematics and ecology, and former chairman of the Snow Hall space committee, said none of the support facilities in Snow worked.
He said the air conditioning often failed,
making it difficult to maintain animals. When
the air conditioning works, the whole building
shakes, he said.
11RE STEAM PIPES leak, the air pressure pipes do not work properly. Brien said. The pipe dwells do not work properly. Brien said.
Mother urges end to hazing after son dies
"As a laboratory building Snow Hall has just seen its day," he said.
It will be partly cloudy today with temperatures in the mid- to upper-38s, according to the National Weather Service south to southeast at 10-20 mph.
Tomorrow, skies will become increaseingly cloudy, with a high in the 20s. There is a chance of snow tomorrow and tomorrow night.
1 onight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow.
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
On Feb. 23, 1978, Chuck Stenzel, a sophomore at Alfred University in New York, decided to pledge a fraternity. As part of his pledging, he was instructed to get in a car trunk with two other men and drink a pint of bacon, a fifth of wine and six beers before he could be released.
When the trunk was opened, Stenzel was unconscious and the other two pledges were wounded.
The fraternity was put on probation and discharged from the University for a term.
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Stenzel's mother, Eileen Stevens, was angry and confused by the school's action. She formed CHUCK, Committee Halting Useless College Students and students to the potential dangers of hazing.
"Stevens lectured on "Hazing and Why It Should Be Eliminated" to about 50 people Saturday in Woodruff Auditorium. The lecture was sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and the Student Organizations and Activities office.
ATOS REGISTRATION with the University of Kansas was revoked in mid-May because of hazing complaints. Registration revocation means the fraternity cannot officially affiliate with the University, or use University services, or receive any gifts that would invite Stevie last week to come and speak.
"There have been burnings, brandings, sexual abuse, animal abuse and severe paddlings that ended in ruptured skins and kidney damage," Stevens said. "In my documentation, I have more than 65 deaths, 33 occurring since 1970 and 18 since my son died in 1978."
the most recent hazing death took place at the University of Missouri in October when a 19-year-old man died after falling from a monument during a pledging ritual.
"Countless others have been injured, not only physically, but mentally," she said. "Each and every instance began as something harmless. No one ever intends for anything to go wrong."
I vee neard every excuse in the book—it strengthens the bonds of brotherhood, unifies the house. I went through it," alumi expect it but none of these excuses hold any water with me." Stevens said. "That's not what brotherhood is about."
"If there's something potentially dangerous going on as part of a pledge experience, I urge you to get rid of it. Substitute Help Week for Hell week or has your experience improved in their improvement projects together. Make the pledges feel they're one of you as opposed to alienating them."
"Ask not what you can do to your pledges, but what you can do for them," she said. "It shouldn't take a tragedy to move us to action."
Pledges and actives have a responsibility to speak out against hazing, she said.
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansen staff
A fire Saturday afternoon caused extensive damage to a mobile home at 1000 W. 31st St. A babysitter was credited by Lawrence firefighters with saving the lives of three children in the mobile home. Story page 8.
Bill would eliminate grace limit
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
The state House Transportation Committee will begin hearings today on a bill that would eliminate the 10 mph grace limit on highway traffic tickets.
As the statute now reads, any speeding violation within 10 mph of the 55 mph speed limit is not considered a moving violation. Instead, the driver would be fined a fine that would not affect the driver's record.
The bill under consideration, however, would eliminate that grace limit and make all speed violations over $5 mm a moving violation. Under this rule, the motor vehicle within one year is grounded for license suspension.
"I don't think we should have it down to 55 mph," State Rep. Betty Joan Charlton, D-
Lawrence, said. "A lot of times a car's speedometer is off by a couple miles per hour and then the driver would get a moving violation. Having it all the way down to 55 mph just does
"I go over 60 mph myself and I think that because of the flat nature of Kansas highways, a lot of other drivers do too." Charlton said. "Of those that exceed the limit are on purpose."
BUT CHARLTON, along with Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, is one of the sponsors of the bill. Charlton, however, said she favored the bill to include a grace limit up to 60 mph.
Last year the same bill was brought before the Senate confirmation Committee and was defeated by the congres
14. is not a popular bill, because of the severity
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KU ponders reaction to Times' allegations
By DAN BOWERS and REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporters
Staff Reporters
KU officials are undecided whether the University will investigate allegations of athletic improprieties made last week by the Kansas City Times.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said last night that he would meet with other administrators throughout the week to decide what action the University would take.
The Times, in a copyright story Friday, reported that KU had violated several National Collegiate Athletic Association guidelines, including the promise of employment to a recruit, entertaining recruits off campus and providing transportation for a basketball player's mother.
THE TIMES ALSO reported that academic
tests easily manipulated by athletes
and their advisers.
"I have a high degree of confidence in the integrity of the coaches and athletic staff at the University of Kansas," Shankel said. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of themselves to take advantage of the opportunities afforded to them at the University."
Shankel noted that a three-month investigation by the Times turned up only a few examples of it.
"There are thousands of examples contrary to these few," he said. "There are a number of great examples who went through the University of Kansas and have done well in their lives and careers."
Shankel said in a prepared statement Friday that KU would cooperate fully if the Big Eight Conference or the NCAA wanted to investigate KU. Neither the conference nor the NCAA publicly announces which schools they investigate.
KU Athletic Director, Bob Marcum said that he had nothing to add to Shankel's statement.
Sid Wilson, sports information director, said the athletic department planned to look into the team's schedule.
"All I can say is what it (Shankel's release) said." Wilson said.
ACCORDING TO SHANKEL, the Big Eight Conference recently cited KU as having the highest graduation rate for football players in the conference over the last 20 years.
"All of the seniors on this year's basketball team are expected to graduate by the end of the summer session in August, and two are expected to graduate in May," Shankel said.
Sankalel said he hoped that the allegations, whether or not they would have no adverse ef- fects, KU's legal expert, Bassam
ONE OF THE allegations made by the Times
Related story page 8
was that a former basketball player had a grade changed by an unidentified woman in the office after she was fired.
But Bil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said that was impossible because of KU's double entry system, in which one person enters the computer and another enters the record in a ledger.
"With the double entry system, no one person could change the grades," he said. "It couldn't."
Dyck said that the number of grade changes involving football players was no more than one for other studios or for other students.
John Wright, professor of psychology, told the Times that he changed an athlete's grade after a request from an unidentified source to have his paper and then changed the athlete's grade from an F to a D.
Wright said yesterday that he knew of no unfair advantages being given to athletes at KU and that any student could request a grade change from a professor.
"The system was what I objected to," he said. LEGISLATORS IN TOPEKA have adopted a wait-and-see attitude about what actions to take in response to the allegations made against KU, Wichita State University and Kansas State University.
Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said yesterday that the allegations probably would an effect on the allocation of state funds to KU.
Traditional pregame mop race fires up KU fans
BOB GREENSPANKensan staff
Brian Thomas
By SANDY CLARK Sports Writer
Two minutes are left on the clock and the contest is still close. The thousands of fans jammed into Allen Field House are on their feet—screaming, waving, cursing, throwing cups and doing whatever else might lead their side to victory.
considering that the game hasn't even started yet, any stranger to KU basketball might well
But true blue KU fans know there's nothing going on—except the traditional pregame 2015.
The event's two participants, both maintenance crew employees of the KU athletic department, each are responsible for mopping half of the basketball court. That means pushing their dust mops from one end of the court to the other six times.
THE FIRST TWO laps are always close, with both concentrating only on cleaning the court.
But by the final lap, the action really begins. Amid rehearsal prodding from their fans, each moper quickens his pace hoping to finish before the other.
Mop racing reported has been a KU tradition for a while, though it attracted little interest until recently.
This year's mopers, D.W. Acker and Brian credit KU fans with reviving the tradition.
The only reason we started racing was
because of the fans," Acker, who commandeers the blue mop, said. "They really get fired up for it."
Such support has inspired a fierce rivalry between Acker and Thomas.
"When I'm out there on the court, the only think I think about is beating him." Thomas, the driving force behind the red mop, said. "He's no match for me. He has to run to beat me."
Acker, a three-year veteran of the sport.
Monday Morning.
But he did condesc that Thomas, who is only a rookie, had earned Rights for now.
justified his strategy, pointing out that he had bad knees.
"Yeah, this rockie is coming on strong," he said. "He's won a lot of races already. I can't keep up with him, but like I said, I've got bad knees."
Although both competitors appear to draw equal fan support, that is likely to change once fans hear of Acker's theory that if the blue mup wins, the KU basketball team will win.
THOMAS CONTENDS that some fans may already know of Acker's theory, suggesting that a conspiracy is brewing to assure the blue mop of winning.
"I'm almost certain that people think the blue mask should win," he said. "One night I had a
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BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan staff
D.W. Acker